鴬

鴬 is a Japanese kanji written with 16 strokes, listed here under the keyword “nightingale”. It is built from 鳥 (bird). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 2916.

Keyword: nightingale
RTK frame: 2916
Strokes: 16
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading): オウ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading): うぐいす
Script: Japanese kanji
Also known as: соловей
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi: 鴬 oriole

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

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鳥 bird

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